Hacker News: brirec

New comment by brirec in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

brirec — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:44:12 +0000

The failings of the broken windows theory[1] would strongly disagree.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory?wprov=sf...

New comment by brirec in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

brirec — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:28:09 +0000

Did you read the article?

New comment by brirec in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

brirec — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:38:43 +0000

In fact I’ve used a 100 foot fiber optic DisplayPort cable that I “just bought” on Amazon, admittedly for a LOT of money (like, I think it was about $100 USD, 3 years ago or so).

New comment by brirec in "Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs"

brirec — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:55:47 +0000

Whoa, this sent me back. I cut my teeth on Red Hat Linux 5.2 (pre-RHEL), and I remember when they first added Bluecurve… oh jeez, this means im old, doesn’t it?

New comment by brirec in "How to escape the Linux networking stack"

brirec — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:22:31 +0000

You could also create a network for each pair of containers that need to communicate with one another.

New comment by brirec in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

brirec — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:24:14 +0000

> Do you think Microsoft understands consent?

> ( ) Yes

> (•) Remind me in 3 days

New comment by brirec in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

brirec — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:38:20 +0000

I think the parent comment means that Ladybird is fighting to be an additional browser engine in the current ecosystem of “Chromium and a couple of tiny, unimportant competitors.”

However, on the subject of the other meaning of “diversity,” and whether or not it is in the business models of either of these projects, I think we have pretty conclusive evidence that actually it is NOT a core value to either of them:

Citation for Ladybird: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity...

Citation for DHH, the creator of Omarchy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30600746

As someone directly affected by this sort of thing, I really want nothing to do with either project.

I also can’t help but notice that this “tech-right smell” is about the only thing that these two projects seem to have in common with one another, making me question Cloudflare’s intentions with this.

New comment by brirec in "OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices"

brirec — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:28:20 +0000

Netgate are _terrible_ at open source, though — they’re shit at accepting contributions, they’re shit at providing attribution, and they’re shit at providing any support whatsoever to anyone who prefers other hardware (even with their paid software).

So I really can’t say I recommend their hardware…

New comment by brirec in "OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices"

brirec — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:25:03 +0000

> vendors like Ubiquiti who base their work on OpenWRT anyway

I thought Ubiquity’s firmwares were all based on Debian. Is this no longer the case?

New comment by brirec in "No adblocker detected"

brirec — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:22:33 +0000

What the fuck up does this do?

New comment by brirec in "Show HN: Attempt – A CLI for retrying fallible commands"

brirec — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:07:40 +0000

This is kind of neat. I appreciate how well it falls into the whole Unix philosophy of small tools that do one thing really well.

One thing I’m kind of curious about from a UI standpoint is why the exponential argument isn’t a double-hyphen flag. It kind of feels like it should be, given all of the other arguments are flags.

New comment by brirec in "AnduinOS"

brirec — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:38:44 +0000

Have you ever seen the size of modern OS installs?

New comment by brirec in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

brirec — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:10:14 +0000

These days all of my “Debian” bare metal systems are technically running Proxmox, which I think is a relatively happy medium as far as the base Debian system goes — the Proxmox kernel is basically the Ubuntu kernel, but otherwise it’s a pretty standard Debian system.

I’ve thought about (ab)using a Proxmox repository on an otherwise stock Debian system before just for the kernel…

New comment by brirec in "Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems"

brirec — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 06:45:35 +0000

RIP AFP

New comment by brirec in "Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest"

brirec — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:42:24 +0000

> you can of course guess it most of the time

In what scenarios is a GitHub clone URL ever different from what one what “guess”?

I’m genuinely curious — all of the GitHub git clone URLs I’ve encountered were the exact same format. (https://github.com/$user/$repository with an optional “.git” at the end of the URL)

New comment by brirec in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

brirec — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:03:55 +0000

While I agree that we should have legal codes protecting our online and digital rights, I’m convinced that there are enough Bad People on the Internet that we do indeed still need strong technical protections as well.

New comment by brirec in "Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator"

brirec — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:54:04 +0000

You can get used Griffin iMates on eBay from time to time, but you'll want to solder in a new coin cell battery.

New comment by brirec in "Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds"

brirec — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:02:50 +0000

To my knowledge, this hasn’t been the case for years, and I’ve never noticed any extra visual glitching on Linux.

New comment by brirec in "Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry"

brirec — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:05:23 +0000

I was informed that Podman at least has a `podman image scp` function for doing just this...

New comment by brirec in "Negotiating PoE+ Power in the Pre‑Boot Environment"

brirec — Wed, 28 May 2025 04:57:26 +0000

The standard is, well, a standard, and that’s why PoE is safe in the first place. Adding per-port fuses won’t stop bad cable from burning, because the fuse would have to be sized for the rating of the PoE switch.

This is why you don’t want “fake” Cat6 etc. cable. I’ve seen copper-clad aluminum sold as cat6 cable before, but that shit will break 100% of the time and a broken cable will absolutely catch fire from a standard 802.at switch.